The Birthday Gazette

Born on June 14

June 14 birthdays & history

If you were born on June 14, you share a birthday with Donald Trump, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Charles-Augustin de Coulomb. June 14 babies are Gemini, with pearl as their birthstone and the rose as their birth flower. June 14 is the 166th day of the year in leap years (165th in other years).

Famous people born on June 14

  • 1946Donald Trump, American businessman, television personality, 45th and 47th President of the United States
  • 1811Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist
  • 1736Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer
  • 1969Steffi Graf, German tennis player
  • 1868Karl Landsteiner, Austrian biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1864Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist
  • 1989Lucy Hale, American actress and singer-songwriter
  • 1924James Black, Scottish pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1856Andrey Markov, Russian mathematician and theorist
  • 1903Alonzo Church, American mathematician and logician

What happened on June 14

  • 1777The Second Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes design for the flag of the United States.
  • 1822In a paper presented to the Royal Astronomical Society, English mathematician Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine, an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions.
  • 1839Henley Royal Regatta: the village of Henley-on-Thames, on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, stages its first regatta.
  • 1872Trade unions are legalized in Canada.
  • 1888The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
  • 1900Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
  • 1907The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
  • 1919John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
  • 1926Brazil leaves the League of Nations.
  • 1934The landmark Australian Eastern Mission concluded after a three-month diplomatic tour of East and South-East Asia.
  • 1937Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
  • 1992Swedish woman Helena Andersson disappeared in Mariestad, one suspect were ”the man with the pilot glasses".

Also observed on June 14

  • Day of Memory for Repressed People (Armenia)
  • Flag Day (United States)
  • Freedom Day (Malawi)
  • Liberation Day (Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)
  • World Blood Donor Day

Questions, answered

What star sign is June 14?

People born on June 14 are Gemini. Their birthstone is pearl and their birth flower is the rose.

Which famous people were born on June 14?

Donald Trump (1946), Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Steffi Graf (1969), Karl Landsteiner (1868), Alois Alzheimer (1864) were all born on June 14.

What happened on June 14 in history?

Among other things: in 1934, The landmark Australian Eastern Mission concluded after a three-month diplomatic tour of East and South-East Asia; in 1937, Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only) state of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday; in 1992, Swedish woman Helena Andersson disappeared in Mariestad, one suspect were ”the man with the pilot glasses".

Can I get a newspaper front page from June 14?

Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any June 14 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.

Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “June 14”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.